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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -Cicero

The U.S. State Department provided
members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood with VIP treatment at JFK airport
and exempted them from extra security screening, according to internal
government documents.

The preferential treatment, referred to
as “port courtesy,” is generally reserved for visiting dignitaries but
was reportedly provided to members of the Muslim Brotherhood in March
and April of 2012. The development was first reported by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, which compiled State Department documents obtained as part of a Freedom of Information Act request.

The U.S. government welcomed the Muslim
Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party with open arms even before
they took over the Egyptian government in 2012.

Documents, marked “sensitive but
unclassified,” show that one senior Muslim Brotherhood official and
visiting delegate, Abdul Mawgoud Dardery, was even escorted through
security checkpoints at JFK. He also reportedly avoided all “secondary
inspection,” which includes TSA agents going through baggage and
electronic equipment belonging to potential security threats.

Dardery had “been linked to a child
pornography investigation in the United States years earlier. Under
normal circumstances, he likely would have been subjected to extra
scrutiny,” according to the Investigative Project on Terrorism.

“We did not hear anything further from
the MB [Muslim Brotherhood] so we assume to departure went smoothly,” a
department official reported after the trip.

TheBlaze has reached out to the State Department and will update this story should they respond.

Though the Muslim Brotherhood took over
the Egyptian government when Mohammed Morsi was elected president in
2012, the Islamist group was overthrown during a military coup in 2013.

The Brotherhood and its supporters
have held near daily protests since Morsi’s ouster but over the past
weeks, the cumulative weight of a tough security crackdown that killed
hundreds and jailed top leaders has left the group deeply weakened.

“The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in
Egypt in 1928 with the goal of establishing a worldwide Islamic state.
Just weeks before the delegation visited the United States, a
Brotherhood spokesman said that goal remained at the forefront of the group’s ambitions,” the IPT report adds.